Improvement in hinges



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES W. WOOD, OF GONSHOHOGKEN, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN HlNGES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 140,449, dated July 1, 1873 application filed May 5, 1873.

To all whom it mayeoncern:

Be it known that I, JAMES W. WOOD, of Gonshohocken, inthe county of Montgomery and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Adjustable Hinge, of which the following is a specification:

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 represents a side elevation of my adjustable hinge with door closed on jamb partly in section; Fig. 2, a horizontal section of the same' on line 0 0, Fig. 1; and Fig. 3, a perspective view of the hinge-socket.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The object of my invention is to furnish to builders and the public an adjustable hinge, by means of which the doors can be easily set to any position desired on the shrinking or swelling of the door-frame and door, or-ad justed up and down to prevent dragging or catching at the sill or top frame. The annoyance arising from the settling of doors, by taking them down, taking off the hinges, and disfiguring the paint, may thereby be entirely avoided. My invention consists of a flange cast to one Wing or leaf of a common butthinge, to slideand be adjusted by set-screws in a metallic socket mortised into the j amb and secured firmly therein by wood-screws.

In the drawing, A represents the jamb of a door frame or casing; B, the door; and G, the butt-hinge, of the usual shape and material. To the wing which is applied to the jamb is cast, in upright direction under right angles, the extension plate or flange D, which is introduced into socket E, of suitable metal. The socket E is somewhat wider and longer than flange D to allow its ready adjustment therein. The sockets E are mortised into jambs Aat the required height to fit the hinges of door 13, and connected firmly thereto by face-extensions a and wood-screws b. Setscrews F are applied through the molding and jamb A to flange D,passing through threaded apertures cl of that side of the socket E placed toward the opening side of the door.

By loosening and tightening set-screws E door B may be adjusted to any position-sidewise, or up and down-as required by the shrinking or settling of the door-frame and door.

An ornamental head of the set-screwE will improve the only part of the hinge which is seen from the outside.

WVhen the door is considerably shrunk the setting of the same toward the lock-jamb will leave a space between the hinge and jamb A. To fill up this space a strip, G, of suitable thickness, is prepared with recesses for the flanges E, and inserted between the hinges and jamb. By tightening the set-screw F the strip G is firmly held in position, being wedged in by the hinges and jamb Without requiring any further connection. The strip G closes up the space fully so as to be hardly noticeable. A thicker or thinner strip may be inserted as necessity requires in course of time.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patcut- A butthinge having extension D, held by a set-screw or other fastening at any point of adjustment in a socket, E, and applied to a door, B, and jamb A, as and for the purpose described.

JAMES W. WOOD.

Witnesses:

J OSEPH HALLAM, JoHN J. NICHOLSON. 

